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The journey is usually treated as a major plotline, if not ''the'' main plot itself, and the secondary and tertiary locations and characters that our group encounters are at most a source of smaller subplots, which are usually resolved shortly before that location is left - after all, it's about the journey, not the destination. That said, if a specific subplot ''isn't'' resolved immediately, [[Chekhov's Gun|expect them to come up sometime down the]] [[Stealth Pun|road.]]
 
[[Christopher Booker]]'s ''[[The Seven Basic Plots]]'' calls this "'''[[Voyage and Return''']]".
 
[[Tropes Are Flexible]], and this one is more flexible than most. (It ''is'' one of [[The Seven Basic Plots]], after all.)
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